Ministry of Tourism and Sports was established
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports was established by the decree of the President of Uzbekistan.
The Ministry of Tourism and Sports was established on the basis of the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports and the State Committee for Tourism Development. The decree was signed by the President, UzA reported.
The post of Deputy Prime Minister - Chairman of the State Committee for Tourism, which Aziz Abdukhakimov now holds, has been transformed into Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Tourism and Sports.
The plans to unite the State Committee for Tourism and the Ministry of Sports were announced in February by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. At the same time, Aziz Abdukhakimov was entrusted with the leadership of the Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports (after the release from the post of Minister Dilmurod Nabiyev).
“Many sports facilities are not used, the efficiency is below 50%. They must work around the clock, ” the Head of State said to Aziz Abdukhakimov.
The Ministry of Sports was created in February 2018 on the basis of the State Committee for Physical Culture and Sports. It was formed a year earlier together with the Ministry of Culture - in February 2017 - to replace the abolished Ministry of Culture and Sports. The presidential decree then noted that the unification of the spheres of culture and sports in one ministry turned out to be ineffective.
Source: gazeta.uz